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Language peer sets for ARC:
United Kingdom↑
United Kingdom/1947↑
Designed 1947 ↑
1940s languages ↑
First generation↑
Immediate Post-War↑
Genus Initial orders ↑
Excluded from Sammet ↑
Initial orders↑
Assemblers↑
Fixed operation ↑
Initial orders/1947↑
Assemblers/1947↑
Fixed operation/1947↑
Initial orders/United Kingdom↑
Assemblers/United Kingdom↑
Fixed operation/United Kingdom↑
Excluded from Sammet ↑
Excluded from Sammet/1947↑
Excluded from Sammet/uk ↑

ARC(ID:4929/arc002)

Assembler for Booth 

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Country: United Kingdom
Designed 1947
Published: 1948
Genus: Initial orders
Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet

machine language for Automatic Relay Computer by Kathleen Booth at Birkbeck College Computation Laboratory, University of London in 1948

A hand annotation from Ferranti people says that the ARC was the equivalent of the Manchester machine in power and speed (see ref below)

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ENIAC short code → ARC   Based on
ARC → APE(X)C   Evolution of
References:
  • [Booth] (1947) [Booth] "Improvements in and relating to Calculators Patent specification by A.D. Booth"
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1947) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "General Considerations in the Design of an All-Purpose Electronic Digital Computer"
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1947) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "General Considerations in the Design of an All-Purpose Electronic Digital Computer"
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1947) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "Coding for ARC ", typescript, September 1947.
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1947) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "Coding for ARC ", typescript, September 1947.
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1947) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "Principles and Progress in the Construction of High-Speed Digital Computers" Quart. Journ. Mech. and Applied Math. Sept 1947
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1947) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "Principles and Progress in the Construction of High-Speed Digital Computers" Quart. Journ. Mech. and Applied Math. Sept 1947
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1948) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "Coding for ARC", typescript, pp.39, 2nd edition 1948
  • Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. (1948) Booth, Andrew D. and Britten, Kathleen H.V. "Coding for ARC", typescript, pp.39, 2nd edition 1948
  • Kitz, D. (1948) Kitz, D. "A Description of the ARC", typescript, pp.4, n.d.
  • Lavington, S.H. (1979) Lavington, S.H. "An Evaluation of the ARC Project", unpublished typescript, 1979
  • Campbell-Kelly, Martin (1982) Campbell-Kelly, Martin "The Development of Computer Programming in Britain (1945 to 1955)" Extract: The Birkbeck College Machines Extract: Conclusions Abstract
          in (1982) Annals of the History of Computing 4(2) April 1982 IEEE
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